Work & Career: Work Quotes

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"Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots"

Armand Assante, Actor

"A man who has no office to go, to: I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"The pay is good and I can walk to work"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

Linus Torvalds

"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"Where the whole man is involved, there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

Marshall McLuhan

"I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. "You're fired" is a very strong term"

Donald Trump, Businessman

Donald Trump

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it, but because he can't think of anything else to do"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat"

Lily Tomlin, Actress

Lily Tomlin

"I work to stay alive"

Bette Davis, Actress

Bette Davis

"I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries"

Bette Davis, Actress

Bette Davis

"In any profession, it gets to be a grind"

Denzel Washington, Actor

Denzel Washington

"A real job is a job you hate"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

Bill Watterson

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion"

Mia Hamm, Athlete

"The greatest teacher I know is the job itself"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

James Cash Penney

"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do"

Charles Eames, Designer

Charles Eames

"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork"

Milton Friedman, Economist

Milton Friedman

"My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house"

Tom Hanks, Actor

Tom Hanks

"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else"

Neil Young, Musician

Neil Young

"It's cool to go places where working people are happy"

Neil Young, Musician

Neil Young

"One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

Bo Bennett

"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived, or his imagination conceived"

John Adams, President

John Adams

"If you actually do something you love, it's a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

"Every person born into this world, their work is born with them"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

Napoleon Hill

"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

Gloria Steinem

"Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

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